Security advisory

{
  "id": "c5016984538596f4ee2d9cdd2161065829f8cc24e51d03bbcce4538d000634a6",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-16215",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2019-16215",
    "summary": "The Markdown parser in Zulip server before 2.0.5 used a regular expression vulnerable to exponential backtracking. A user who is logged into the server could send a crafted message causing the server to spend an effectively arbitrary amount of CPU time and stall the processing of future messages.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2019-16215",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2019-16215",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2019-16215"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/zulip/zulip",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "2bb3af1ade5bb3613dc88d44164abbe1230cd679"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "5797f013b3be450c146a4141514bda525f2f1b51"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "2.0.5"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "fixed": "5797f013b3be450c146a4141514bda525f2f1b51"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "2.0.4",
            "2.0.3",
            "2.0.2",
            "2.0.1",
            "2.0.0",
            "2.0.0-rc1",
            "1.9.0",
            "1.9.0-rc3",
            "1.9.0-rc2",
            "1.8.0",
            "1.8.0-rc1",
            "1.7.0",
            "1.6.0",
            "1.5.0",
            "1.4.0",
            "1.3.13",
            "1.3.11",
            "1.3.10",
            "1.3.9",
            "1.3.8",
            "1.3.7",
            "1.3.6",
            "1.3.5",
            "1.3.4",
            "1.3.3",
            "1.3.2",
            "1.3.1",
            "1.3.0",
            "enterprise-1.2.0",
            "enterprise-1.1.5"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-16215.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:50:46.214965539Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://blog.zulip.org/2019/09/11/zulip-server-2-0-5-security-release/",
        "https://github.com/zulip/zulip/commit/5797f013b3be450c146a4141514bda525f2f1b51"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2019-16215",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 382131,
  "published_at": "2019-09-18T12:15:10.91+00:00"
}